XP Pro cannot detect drive letter for 2nd hard drive

[Ethan Nguyen]

Hi,

I did a clean install of Win XP Pro. My PC has 2 internal
hard drives. However, in My Computer, only one drive
letter shows up. When I go to system devices, I can see
that both hard drives drivers are installed. But still I
cannot view it in My Computer. I tried uninstalled the
driver and restart. The OS did detect the new hardware,
but still I cannot view the drive letter. How can I fix
this problem. Thanks.

 

[Alex]

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I did a clean install of Win XP Pro. My PC has 2 internal
hard drives. However, in My Computer, only one drive
letter shows up. When I go to system devices, I can see
that both hard drives drivers are installed. But still I
cannot view it in My Computer. I tried uninstalled the
driver and restart. The OS did detect the new hardware,
but still I cannot view the drive letter. How can I fix
this problem. Thanks.
.

Is the second hdd formatted?
make sure both physical drives are formatted.

 

[Brad]

Go to start, control panel, administrative tools,
computer management and disk management and see if the
drive shows up at all. If not, it likely is a
jumpering/configuration problem.